Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Published USA, 2009
This book shows clinicians how they can become more effective therapists by understanding and applying recent findings about the brain in their work with children and adolescents. The result is a new kind of therapy, one that takes into account both the uniqueness of each child or adolescent, as well as the requirements of standardized care as recommended by evidence-based practice - offering mental health practitioners advice they can put into practice immediately. The book relies on research in developmental neurobiology, brain imaging, and evidence-based psychotherapeutic practices, and applies it to disorders such as AD/HD, OCD and depression.

CONTENTS
Changing and Staying the Same
Temperament and Neurodynamics
Attachment and Subjectivity
Rupture and Repair in Caregiving Relationships
Adolescence
Working from the BASE
Disorders of Attention and Self-Regulation
Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
Depression in Children and Adolescents

John Arden is the Director of Training for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centres for the Northern California Region. Lloyd Linford serves as Chairman of Psychiatry and Chemical Dependenmcy Best Practices for the same institute.
Paperback. 306 pages